Tag Archives: Autism Poetry

after Michael Stipe Listen: I have a voice. It is my own. I did not install you as a little charm box to hang in the back of my throat and chime discordant when I send wind from my sails … Continue reading →

When I write, I paint with words, assembling the verbal from the visual to create and translate the sights from my eyes and my mind into verse and line – but this time, I need to refine my visions into … Continue reading →

Dear H: for those of us to whom words sometimes do not easily run, saunter, or even amble: we speak in code. We think in code. We construct our languages painstakingly like little Tolkiens, separated by time, distance, and space: … Continue reading →

In my world, everything matches. Or compliments each other. Or hopefully, just “goes”. You see, along with every other piece of data I have ingested, I have loaded the color wheel into my brain. And colors become encyclopedia notes: there … Continue reading →

My poem, “Glass and Concrete” was republished over at the Autism and Empathy website. Autism and Empathy seeks “to undo the myths about autism and empathy that have stigmatized autistic people for so long”. The site features prose and poetry … Continue reading →

I place my hands on the glass wall, pushing against one more boundary between me and the world, as if my bare hands could make the wall more solid, less breakable: and when I lift them up, I see the … Continue reading →

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